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Gold, silver, tin and platinum are examples of some important minerals found in 'placer deposits
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Examples of Placer Deposits are Gold, Silver, Platinum, Tin, Monazite, Zircon, Rutile, Ilmenite and more.
Explanation:
- Placer deposits are unconsolidated materials that are loose and semi-consolidated.
- The surface is weathered, the rock is eroded, valuable minerals are transported and concentrated.
- The most economically significant placers are contained in Alaske (gold), India (magnetite), New Zealand and Australia (rosy monazite and zircon, indonesia (cassiterite) and South Africa (diamonds).
- Placer deposit or placeceris an accumulation throughout sedimentary processes of valuable minerals formed by the separation of gravity from the specific source rock.
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